According to the Washington Post, just days after the story broke, DHS shelved its plans to create or tap into a national database of license plate recognition data. According to an Immigration & Customs Enforcement spokeswoman, the solicitation "was posted without the awareness of ICE leadership" and "will be reviewed to ensure the path forward appropriately meets [the agency's] operational needs.”

Massachusetts police must now get a search warrant before they can track a person's past movements through their cell phone in an important new decision that has implications beyond just cell tracking in the Bay State.

In Commonwealth v. Augustine, state police relied on federal law to obtain an order authorizing the disclosure of two weeks worth of historical cell site records from Sprint in connection with a murder investigation. But the order wasn't a search warrant supported by probable cause. Years after obtaining the records and a criminal case was brought against Augustine, a different judge found the police had violated the Massachusetts state constitution when it failed to get a warrant.

Customs & Border Protection recently “discovered” additional daily flight logs that show the agency has flown its drones on behalf of local, state and federal law enforcement agencies on 200 more occasions more than previously released records indicated.